Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome
A boundary in therapy represents an agreed standard of professional conduct and ethics governing relationships during therapeutic intervention and in relation to the therapeutic context and contract.
Mental Capacity relates to the ability of a person to take a particular decision at a particular time
Cognitive Analytic Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Close-ended questions are those which can be answered by a simple "yes" or "no," while open-ended questions are those which require more thought and more than a simple one-word answer.
An intervention aims to improve cognitive skills and quality of life for people with dementia
Consent to treatment is the principle that a person must give permission before they receive any type of medical or psychological intervention, test or examination
Continuing Professional Development
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reintegration
Psychological formulation is the summation and integration of the knowledge that is acquired by this assessment process that may involve psychological, biological and systemic factors and procedures. The formulation will draw on psychological theory and research to provide a framework for describing a client’s problem or needs, how it developed and is being maintained.
Because of their particular training in the relationship of theory to practice, clinical psychologists will be able to draw on a number of models (bio-psycho-social) to meet needs or support decision making and so a formulation may comprise a number of provisional hypotheses. This provides the foundation from which actions may derive. Psychological intervention, if considered appropriate, is based upon the formulation.
Or integrative counselling is a combined approach to psychotherapy that brings together different elements of specific therapies.
Life story work is when a person with dementia sits with someone over time to make a personal record of important experiences, people and places in their life
The Mental Health Act 1983 (which was substantially amended in 2007) is the law in England and Wales that allows people with a ‘mental disorder’ to be admitted to hospital, detained and treated without their consent – either for their own health and safety, or for the protection of other people. (Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own laws about compulsory treatment for mental ill health.)
Mini Mental State Examination
Multi- model therapies and interventions draw on a variety of therapeutic models
A collaborative and non-pathologising approach to counselling and community work which centres people as the experts of their own lives
Newcastle Model--that provides a framework and process in which to understand behaviour that challenges in terms of needs which are unmet, and suggests a structure in which to develop effective interventions that keep people with dementia central to their care.
National Institute of Clinical excellence evidence-based best practice guidelines in health and care
Open questions encourage the respondent to think and reflect and express their opinions and feelings rather than give simple yes/no responses
Personal recovery is a set of values about a person’s right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms. In recent years users of mental health services have identified three overarching principles to support better outcomes for themselves (Mental Health Network 2012):
Socratic questioning has also been used in therapy, most notably as a cognitive restructuring technique in cognitive therapy. The purpose is to help uncover the assumptions and evidence that underpin people's thoughts in respect of problems. A set of Socratic questions in cognitive therapy to deal with automatic thoughts that distress the person involve:
Solution-focused brief therapy - also known as solution-focused therapy - is an approach to psychotherapy based on solution-building rather than problem-solving.
An approach that works with families and those who are in close relationships to foster change. These changes are viewed in terms of the systems of interaction between each person in the family or relationship.
Transference is the phenomenon whereby we unconsciously transfer feelings and attitudes from a person or situation in the past on to a person or situation in the present. Counter transference is the response that is elicited in the recipient (therapist) by the other's (patient's) unconscious transference communications
Uni-model therapy refers to training and practice of one evidence-based therapeutic intervention
A therapy developed for people with dementia based on accepting the demented person's perception of reality